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Lululemon has a problem with some of its yoga pants. They're a little too... revealing. "That’s a problem for a yoga pants company in a land where nude yoga has yet to take off," quipped Tom Gara at The Wall Stree...

Carolina Farmhouse owners Kelly and Sam Utt-Grubb are dealing with a number of small business challenges that include managing customer complaints online and with the Better Business Bureau. Click to Continue »

Guest Post Companies should strongly consider using both together to deliver "Big Data" infrastructures.

Anyone else who wants to make a Steve Jobs movie? Get in line and take a number.

Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem's response to the Cypriot parliament's decision to totally reject the Cypriot bank bailout deal today is only two sentences, and it offers no help at all: I take note of the dec...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government plans to auction dollars to private businesses that sell food, medicine and other basic goods amid widespread shortages. Planning Minister...

Here’s a list of the top 10 U.S. companies in terms of their cash stash, compiled by Moody’s. Data compiled year-end 2012 showed the usual suspects among the top ranks, including the largest tech names (whi...

Prommis Solutions, a firm hired to process foreclosures, filed for bankruptcy, blaming slowed business once regulators began investigating the "robosigning" scandal.

Prices for generic prescription drugs can often go on a roller coaster. The FDA should take action to help consumers find out the true cost of such medicine.Wanda Ferrin fills her husband's prescription for the generic a...

“Big Belly” solar trash compactors downtown will save Raleigh more than $50,000 a year in garbage collection costs. Click to Continue »

The U.S. health care system is about to collide with the U.S. tax system, so it's no surprise Americans are wondering what that will mean for their health care, their taxes, and most important, for themselves and their f...

Cyprus' legislators recently voted down a controversial bank bailout deal that would have put a surprise levy on the accounts of all the country's bank depositors. But they were merely expressing the will of the people �...

A proposed horse slaughterhouse in New Mexico is just weeks away from opening, according to A. Blair Dunn, a lawyer for Valley Meat Co. in...

You may have been too busy watching fancy fare like Top of the Lake or Bates Motel to care, really, but the 16th season of Dancing with the Stars premiered last night. This go-around features your fit O...

Following up on data they released in 2010 of the "draft" version of the neanderthal genome, researchers at Germany's Max Plank Institute For Evolutionary Anthropology have just released a "high-quality" version of the g...

Yahoo is rumored to be in talks to buy a large stake in France Telecom-owned video site Dailymotion.

RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning...

Adobe's CTO has sailed into the sunset to "pursue other opportunities." Now, the web is buzzing about what those new opportunities might be.

How disappointing that one of the most powerful women in the world is only willing to touch half of the story -- half of the truth. Nowhere does Sandberg take into consideration the unique challenges that women of color ...

NEW YORK — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, already an experienced author, has a lot more to write about. The Massachusetts Democrat is working on a...

The answer:  a crashed computer.  At least, that’s what a survey released today revealed.  Yes, that’s me quoted in the survey.  And no, I’m not getting paid to write this.  It’...

Neiman Marcus and two other retailers agreed to settle federal charges on Tuesday that they had mislabeled fur products on clothing — in some cases selling garments with fur while advertising them as synthetic alt...